Today we would like to release an enhanced version 4.3 for Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke. Please feel free to get it for upgrade. In this building we enhanced theme mechanism with providing more ways to customizations, in the mean time it began to support EditArea (the code editor in a textarea) to highlight the theme view files and now you can easily deal with those customizations. For example, from the v4.3 you are able to take control of the layout or UI of your customized theme, such as bookmark, vote and related posts section. The awesome sample is the tutorial - Integrate SexyBookmarks into DNN Blog. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

Major Highlights in v4.3:

ENH – Supported EditArea (the code editor in a textarea) to highlight the theme view files and now you can easily deal with those customizations.

FIX - Fail to fall back '_default/commentview.ascx' when the comment view file of the current theme does not exists.

FIX - The 'Print' link opens a blank page in the browser and the resource cannot be found.

FIX - Enhanced digg feature and made it work again.

Lots of other fixes & enhancements.

NOTE: As with any release, we recommend you perform a complete file and database backup before performing any upgrade on a production website and that you first conduct a trial upgrade on a staging version of the site. Following these guidelines will ensure that you are able to recover should any unforeseen problems arise during the upgrade process.

Note that some issues may occur if your original version of SunBlogNuke is lower version, like 3.x, and you've developed your customized theme. Please refer to the tutorial - Must-Read Note for SunBlogNuke v4.x and follow the instructions. Hope it makes sense.

I evaluated four blog modules for our site. SunBlogNuke v4 is intuitive, easy to setup, easy to learn all while being very powerful. This is by far one of the best user interface designs you will find. A great value compared to others modules.

The Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke supports the social bookmark feature from the beginning, with which your readers easily share your blog post on the famous social bookmark services around the world. But you may heard of sexy bookmark plugin of Wordpress and really like the way it pop up the icons on hover so that you want to use the popular and cool SexyBoomarks plugin in your dnn blog post. Actually that was the request raised by some our customers. Now I would like to teach you how to convert the original bookmark into SexyBoomarks like effect with beautiful design & icons (If you still don’t know about SexyBoomarks or you want to learn more, please go to its homepage). The extend way is super easy and is a pure css version with css sprites technique, which inspired by the great post [Sexy bookmark like effect using pure css : re-cleaned].

About the author

Baldwin

Senior developer for dnn solution & founder of ultimate dnn blog module - SunBlogNuke, which is the best publishing tool for DotNetNuke (DNN) websites, with a focus on simplicity, ease of extensibility, web standards and usability. It includes a great suite of modules for blogging on your DNN site.